{"id":760080,"date":"2026-06-25T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760080\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:35:10","slug":"its-time-to-celebrate-the-first-global-beatles-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760080\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time to celebrate the first Global Beatles Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans of\u00a0The Beatles<\/a>\u00a0around the world are celebrating the first ever official Global Beatles Day.<\/p>\n

The Fab Four and Apple Corps Ltd have recognised June 25 as the annual day to honour the legacy of the band<\/a>, making official a long-running fan-led celebration of The Beatles\u2019 music.<\/p>\n

To mark the day, The Beatles have shared a\u00a0colourised\u00a0version of their 1967 \u2018All You Need Is Love\u2019 performance online for the first time.<\/p>\n

The footage comes from the band\u2019s appearance on\u00a0Our World,\u00a0the BBC\u00a0programme\u00a0that became the first live global satellite television broadcast. On June 25, 1967,\u00a0John Lennon<\/a>, Paul McCartney<\/a>,\u00a0George\u00a0Harrison<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ringo Starr<\/a> performed \u2018All You Need Is Love\u2019 in front of a small studio audience that included Mick Jagger<\/a>, from inside Studio One at Abbey Road Studios, sending the song\u2019s message to an estimated 400million viewers around the world.<\/p>\n

Although the performance was originally broadcast in black and white, the colourised version has now been released on YouTube for fans to watch for free. Check it out here:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

June 25\u00a0has long been celebrated by Beatles fans because of that landmark broadcast, but this year marks the first time Global Beatles Day has been formally acknowledged by The Beatles and Apple Corps.<\/p>\n

The celebration began as a fan initiative in 2009, founded by lifelong fan Faith Cohen, and has since grown into an annual day of events, singalongs, listening\u00a0parties\u00a0and online tributes around the world.<\/p>\n

To mark the occasion, the official Beatles account wrote on Instagram: \u201cIt\u2019s officially the best day of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

McCartney also shared a message with fans, writing: \u201cHave\u00a0a great time\u00a0on what is now Global Beatles Day (good group!).\u201d<\/p>\n

The John Lennon account, meanwhile, shared a Lennon quote: \u201cThey, whoever they are, don\u2019t stand a chance, because they can\u2019t beat love,\u201d adding: \u201cWishing fans around the world a very happy Global Beatles Day with love from Yoko and Sean.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ringo Starr added his own message of \u201cpeace and love\u201d, writing: \u201cAll you need is love, love peace and love. I send you all peace and love love love no matter what you choose. Choose love Ringo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out the posts below.<\/p>\n

Among those marking the day are\u00a0Jacob Collier, who\u00a0shared\u00a0his 15-minute TED performance\u00a0of \u2018All You Need Is Love\u2019 with the VSO School Of Music Orchestra.<\/p>\n

\u201cHAPPY GLOBAL BEATLES DAY!\u201d\u00a0he\u00a0wrote. \u201cThank you to TED and The Beatles for trusting me with this crazy idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere,\u00a0Rockin\u20191000 brought together 1,000 musicians at Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy, to perform \u2018All You Need Is Love\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest rock band on Earth, playing a song by the greatest band on Earth,\u201d the group wrote, adding that the song\u2019s message \u201cstill feels remarkably simple: people coming together through music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple Corps CEO Tom Greene previously said the official recognition of Global Beatles Day felt especially\u00a0timely.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than ever, the message of The Beatles, and of \u2018All You Need Is Love\u2019 speaks to something vital for community, connection, and the power of bringing people together,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is what makes Global Beatles Day so special. It asks nothing more than for people, wherever they are, to stop, listen, and share a little joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The celebration comes amid a busy period for Beatles fans. Earlier this month,\u00a0long-lost footage of the band\u2019s first\u00a0Top Of The Pops\u00a0performance was reportedly found<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0is now\u00a0set for restoration.<\/p>\n

The 1964 footage includes performances of \u2018Can\u2019t Buy Me Love\u2019 and \u2018You Can\u2019t Do That\u2019, recorded the day before the single was released.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It also follows\u00a0the announcement of \u2018The Beatles\u00a0At\u00a03 Savile Row\u2019<\/a>, the first ever official Beatles fan destination, which is set to open in London in 2027.<\/p>\n

The experience will take fans inside the band\u2019s former Apple Corps headquarters, where they recorded \u2018Let It Be\u2019 and played their final public performance on the rooftop in January 1969.<\/p>\n

McCartney, meanwhile, dropped his new album \u2018The Boys of Dungeon Lane<\/a>\u2018 last\u00a0month, which\u00a0featured his first ever duet with\u00a0Starr\u00a0on \u2018Home To Us\u2019<\/a>.\u00a0McCartney sat down with NME\u00a0to look forwards and back on his extraordinary career<\/a>, share his\u00a0\u201cexcitement\u201d at contributing to the new The Rolling Stones album<\/a>,\u00a0and also\u00a0reveal if he has plans to retire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of\u00a0The Beatles\u00a0around the world are celebrating the first ever official Global Beatles Day. The Fab Four and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,11255,1771],"class_list":["post-760080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}